Biometrics

H.R.4760 – Securing America’s Future Act of 2018 – is a massive giveaway to the police state which will use a National ID to track Americans.

Earlier this month, Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA-6] introduced H.R.4760 – Securing America’s Future Act of 2018, a sweeping bill that entails everything from Education and the Workforce to Homeland Security to the military. Also, tucked away in this 400-page behemoth of a bill are the details of a new biometric National ID card that could soon be required for everyone.

Not surprisingly, there is almost no media coverage on this legislation.

H.R. 4760 establishes a mandatory National Identification system that requires all Americans to carry a government-approved ID containing “biometric features.” Without this card, according to the legislation, you will not be able to work in this country.

The legislation was drafted under the auspices of providing a legislative solution for the current beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“That’s right — the statists want to control you,” said Paul.

Naturally, this bill is wholeheartedly supported by the anti-immigration sect and has gained 70 co-sponsors already in only a few days. As with most police state-promoting legislation, fear of illegal immigration is being pushed to garner such support. However, as Ron Paul points out, the bill won’t just target illegals—it targets everyone—and it will use your most private information to track you.

“Under the statists’ National ID scheme, you’d be forced to carry around your National ID card, tied to this massive database, chockfull of biometric identifiers like fingerprints and retina scans,” Paul noted. “Without this ID, you won’t be able to legally hold a job — or likely even open a bank account or even board a plane!”

Paul said there is a very good chance this bill will become law as the support for it seems overwhelming. He laid out three key factors that are detrimental to the freedom of all Americans.

Allow federal bureaucrats to include biometric identification information on the card, potentially even including fingerprints, retinal scans, or scans of veins on the back of hands, which could easily be used as a tracking device;

Be required for all U.S. workers regardless of place of birth, making it illegal for anyone to hold a job in the United States who doesn’t obtain an ID card;

Require all employers to purchase an “ID scanner” to verify the ID cards with the federal government. Every time any citizen applies for a job, the government would know — and you can bet its only a matter of time until “ID scans” will be required to make even routine purchases, as well.

The control freaks in the US government have been trying for years to pass a National ID card law and it has been successfully resisted every time. This time, however, it appears that the Republicans—who used to be vocally opposed to such measures—are now fully onboard likely because of the bill’s anti-immigration language.

As Paul points out,

For years now, statists in BOTH parties have been fighting to RAM their radical National ID-database scheme into law.

In fact, this scheme was a key portion of the infamous failed “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bills BOTH parties tried to ram through during the Obama administration.

Now, using the momentum behind Trump’s tough talk on immigration and border security, I’m afraid the statists believe the best way to finally enact their National ID scheme is by promoting their bill on Capitol Hill as a “DACA fix” while they sell it to the GOP base as a border “security” measure.

Of course, that’s nothing more than a buzzword meant to trick Americans from all over the country into thinking that Congress is going to seal our southern border.

But in reality, it means something far different.

The “security” members of BOTH parties in the U.S. House want doesn’t target any U.S. border. Instead, it’s meant to create an all-out police state within them.

The truth is, this is exactly the type of battle that often decides whether a country remains free or continues sliding toward tyranny.

Paul’s Campaign for Liberty is planning a massive crusade against this tyrannical legislation in the form of billboards, commercials, and other advertising. He’s even started a petition to let your representative know how you feel about them ushering in a new level of despotism and control. You can sign this petition here.

Please share this article with your friends and family so we can stop the tyrants in their path.

Editor’s Note:This video is from 1998 and is Alex Jones’ first film. This is of my personal opinion so I do not expect anyone to agree with me because opinions are just that …opinions. I do believe that maybe Alex Jones, back at the time of this filming in 1998, was someone who was awake and attempting to wake others up. However, as of today, my opinion (remember opinion as I have no proof) is that he’s controlled resistance. Controlled resistance always gives 85-90 percent truth, however, there is always an agenda. What that agenda is I won’t discuss.

This video is from back in 1998 and whether people love or dislike Alex Jones, I can only say watch it!!!

The U.S. government is spending billions of dollars to ensure that they can monitor and track every single activity in which you engage, be it online of off. The latest attempt to infringe on the personal anonymity comes in the form of what has been referred to as Real I.D., essentially a social security number for the internet which would be used to follow your every move in cyberspace. Coupled with technologies that include email mining, global positioning systems, predictive behavioral analysis, drones over America, and even eavesdropping via microphones on our cell phones, the ultimate goal is a surveillance state so expansive that Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin would be jealous.

But just as quickly as government introduces the technologies that are supposed to keep us safe from terrorists and ourselves, enterprising rebels across the country are working to counter them.

In the realm of biometrics, where literally hundreds of thousands of cameras now watch our every move and plug in directly to data mining Fusion Centers where our activities are analyzed, aggregated and dispatched according to our perceived threat, some might think the system itself has become unbeatable.

Short of plastic surgery, how can we modify our faces to disappear from prying government eyes when we step out of our front doors?

If Leo Selvaggio has his way, you’ll be able to assume an alternative identity by using an age old low-tech strategy made possible by modern-day 3-D printers.

It’s so simple that it’s brilliant, especially considering the fact that Selvaggio’s innovation is capable of compromising multi-billion dollar face recognition surveillance systems with the use of an easily obtainable personal prosthetic mask.

His rubber mask aimed at foiling surveillance cameras features his visage, and if he has his way, plenty of people will be sporting the Personal Surveillance Identity Prosthetic in public. It’s one of three products made by the Chicago-based artist’s URME Surveillance, a venture dedicated to “protecting the public from surveillance and creating a safe space to explore our digital identities.”

“Our world is becoming increasingly surveilled. For example, Chicago has over 25,000 cameras networked to a single facial recognition hub,” reads the URME (pronounced U R Me) site. “We don’t believe you should be tracked just because you want to walk outside and you shouldn’t have to hide either. Instead, use one of our products to present an alternative identity when in public.”

The 3D-printed resin mask, made from a 3D scan of Selvaggio’s face and manufactured by ThatsMyFace.com, renders his features and skin tone with surprising realism, though the eyes peeping out from the eye holes do lend a certain creepiness to the look.

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“When you wear these devices the cameras will track me instead of you and your actions in public space will be attributed as mine because it will be me the cameras see,” the artist, who’s working toward his MFA at Chicago’s Columbia College, says on a recently launched Indiegogo page for the products. “All URME devices have been tested for facial recognition and each properly identifies the wearer of me on Facebook, which has some of the most sophisticated facial recognition software around.”

The anti-face recognition tech is currently only available in Leo Selvaggio’s image, so government systems spotting anyone wearing the mask will flag him as the culprit. But the implications are so broad that somewhere inside the Department of Homeland Security surveillance personnel are undoubtedly scrambling to thwart it, because it presents a serious hiccough to the surveillance state.

With the ease of 3-D printing any technophobe with the ability to mimic someone else’s face via 3D graphing software will have the ability to literally assume a person’s identity by simply printing their face and wearing it.

In a the world of biometric surveillance, that means anybody can disappear from view and essentially become a 21st century Silence Dogood.

Much has been made about the Obama administration’s plan to willingly forfeit control of the organization (ICANN) that administers the Internet is fueling justifiable concerns that the United nations will be controlling the Internet. Thanks to some creative, home-grown journalism, it now appears that these claims by the MSM News are indeed true.

What most of us have heard is that Obama has handed off control of the Internet to the United Nations and the alternative media will soon become extinct because it will be regulated out of existence. It turns out that this is true and massive nature of the conspiracy designed for corporations to seize control of the Internet are true.

The United Nations Will be Controlling the Internet. The United Nations is Part of the NWO

In the paragraphs below, the investigative exploits of an obscure researcher reveal the depth of this conspiracy.

Good Things Come In Small Packages

An innovative activist and researcher, who refers to himself as only “4409″ recently ventured into the Phoenix Convention Center to investigate the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group which is trying to create a blueprint to control access the Internet. Subsequently, “4409″ discovered that big money is behind a coming government program designed to make it mandatory that for you and I to use the internet, we must submit to using a biometric online identification tool.

4409 further discovered that one of the convention rooms was reserved for online liability insurance program. Companies which were lining up to see how they could make money by offering liability insurance to people with biometric online Identifications. This begs the question as to whether this biometric online ID poses a potential physical danger to the user? Why else would one need this type of insurance?

4409 also discovered that there were rooms that said “policy,” “finance,” “privacy” and “implementation.” 4409 did not detail the scope of the entities which are behind this online biometric ID program. However, he did reveal the fact that this massive meeting between these multiple entities was not merely a brainstorming session. These entities are conspiring to control the Internet and ultimately to control you.

4409 does not lack in courage in resourcefulness. However, his investigation was cut short as he was harassed by security. Therefore, he was only able to shoot a little footage. However, the footage he did shoot, was revealing. I would advise the reader to take the time to view the following short video. There is some very disturbing information contained in the video but the production is humorous and entertaining.

A Massive Conspiracy to Seize Control of the Internet

What went unnoticed in 4409′s report was the number of involved government agencies involved in this endeavor. A very large number of very influential universities also played an active role in this conference. And there was massive representation of the corporate community which included some of the most recognizable names in the world. The sheer size and scope of the entities meeting on this topic at one time reminds me of the early days of the development and implementation of global warming policies held in Kyoto, Japan with the one major difference being that with the biometric online ID conference there was far less controversy than the early days of the global warming meetings and there seems to be a lot more consensus on a course of action. It would appear that the globalists are becoming much more efficient in their implementation of controversial policies.

It is clear that these various groups were meeting together for two reasons. First, they are conspiring to separate you from as much of your money as possible in order to use the Internet. Second, they are conspiring to control your access to economic and political information in much the same manner as has the corporate controlled media has engaged in over the past several decades.

A Cross-Section of Federal Agencies In Attendance

A cross-section of the U.S. Federal Government agencies in attendance at the conference included the Department of Energy – Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Student Aid, Federal Trade Commission, National Security Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid, US Department of the Treasury, U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government.

A Cross-Section of State and Local Governments In Attendance

A number of city and state governments were represented as well and a few of these included the City of Las Vegas, Boston, Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Commonwealth of Virginia – Department of Motor Vehicles (can you say Agenda 21 and the Vehicle Mileage Tax for the miles you drive your car?), the State of Michigan, the State of Nevada and the Georgia Technology Authority.

A Cross-Section of Highly Reputable Universities In Attendance

It is almost easier to construct a list of universities who did not attend these meetings than who did. A small cross-section of prominent university attendees included American University, Auburn University, Baylor College of Medicine, Boston College, Brown University, California Institute of Technology, California State University Monterey Bay, California State University Office of the Chancellor, California State University, Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Identity at the University of Texas, Clemson University, Colorado State University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Economic Crime Institute (ECI) of Utica College, Georgetown University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Louisiana State University, Loyola University Chicago, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Texas Tech University, Pennsylvania State University (hide the children), The University of Arizona, UC Berkeley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and not surprisingly, Stanford University (does anyone else remember the CIA front, Stanford Research Institute, of the late 1960′s fame?) .

The Excuses Invented To Use Biometic ID’s to Access the Internet

The excuses to enact this draconian system are endless. “You have too many passwords to remember. Future hackers will get smarter and be able to trick computer systems into thinking that they are, in fact, the legitimate user logging in. It will be safer for children to access the internet because the people with whom they have contact with will be known…”

Will the technologies of biometric identification solve these aforementioned issues in the future? Probably. However, you better be prepared to use your unique fingerprints, retinal scans and voice prints to access the Internet. The technology associated with Biometric identificationwill sell the program to the public because people will be freed from our key chains, allowing the public to enter their homes, cars, safes, and other secure locations with the scan of a fingerprint or retina. This is no longer the fictional stuff of Star Trek fantasies. This technology is right here, right now, and it is soon going to be unleashed against an unsuspecting public.

There are several downsides to this so-called freedom movement associated with increased control over the Internet. What you now get for free you will soon be paying an access fee. Your online ID will come with a price and you will undoubtedly be taxed on your internet usage. Additionally, the government will have access to everything about you and in some futuristic totalitarian regime, like the police state grid and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that is presently being installed in America, this could proved potentially lethal.

The world is being incrementally moved to the point of accepting the widespread use of various biometric ID applications. Countries around the world are already requiring biometric identification authentication for passports, identification cards, and in banking systems (e.g. Japan, United States, Germany, Australia, Israel, Iraq, Nigeria and Brazil). There is a nexus point coming with the ultimate merging on all of these biometric schemes and it is becoming abundantly clear that the sum total will add up to the enslavement of humanity because soon you will be tagged and bagged like a FedEx package in route to its final destination. Very soon, the words “nowhere to run and nowhere to hide” will carry a very dire meaning.

The one thing that everyone can count on, given the presence of the top corporations of the world at this conference in Phoenix, is that we will be paying a proverbial arm and a leg to use what was once free. And with the presence of watchdog agencies such as the NSA, DHS, etc., we can bet that our few remaining civil liberties will fade very quickly into the night. This is beyond 1984.

The implementation of a biometric ID is a frightening proposition. It is not a long leap from biometric ID’s to human chipping. And on that note, I leave you with these thoughts:

A Christian Perspective of Biometric ID’s

Revelation 13:15-18 states: “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, OR the name of the beast, or the number of his name … and his number is six hundred threescore and six.”

A Libertarian/Constitutional View of Biometric ID’s

This is a gross intrusion into American civil liberties. The government is conducting unwarranted searches and seizures of our bodies and our private possessions/documents. This is wholly illegal and unconstitutional and must be opposed by any means necessary.

Conclusion

What has been presented here is just the tip of the iceberg as to what the globalists have planned with regard to the use of biometric ID’s. If the plot for the United Nations to control the Internet was not bad enough, we are now learning that the United Nations desires to use this technology for some very frightening possibilities.

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About the author: Dave Hodges is an award winning psychology, statistics and research professor, a college basketball coach, a mental health counselor, a political activist and writer who has published dozens of editorials and articles in several publications such as Freedom Phoenix, News With Views, and The Arizona Republic.

In some areas of the world, payment systems that require palm scanning or face scanning are already being tested. We have entered an era where biometric security is being hailed as the “solution” to the antiquated security methods of the past.

We are being promised that the constant problems that hackers are causing with our credit cards, bank accounts, ATM machines and Internet passwords will all go away once we switch over to biometric identification. And without a doubt, we have some massive security problems that need to be addressed.

But do you really want a machine to read your face or your hand before you are able to buy anything, sell anything or log on to the Internet? Do you really want “the system” to be able to know where you are, what you are buying and what you are doing at virtually all times?

Biometric security systems are being promoted as “cool” and “cutting edge”, but there is also potentially a very dark side to them that should not be ignored.

In this day and age, identity theft has become a giant problem. Being able to confirm that you are who you say that you are is a very big deal. To many, biometric security presents a very attractive solution to this problem. For example, the following is a brief excerpt from a recent Fox News article entitled “Biometric security can’t come soon enough for some people“…

In a world where nearly every ATM now uses an operating system without any technical support, where a bug can force every user of the Internet to change the password to every account they’ve ever owned overnight, where cyber-attacks and identity theft grow more menacing every day, the ability to use your voice, your finger, your face or some combination of the three to log into your e-mail, your social media feed or your checking account allows you to ensure it’s very difficult for someone else to pretend they’re you.

Almost everyone would like to make their identities more secure. Nobody actually wants their bank accounts compromised or their Internet passwords stolen. But there is a price to be paid for adopting biometric identification. Your face or your hand will be used to continually monitor and track everything that you do and everywhere that you go. Here is some more from that Fox News article…

Friday, we made Ryan King the most verified man in Brooklyn.

“Verified,” a fingerprint-recognition device chirped back at Ryan after he placed his finger on the reader.

“Verified,” a facial-recognition device said to Ryan after scanning his face.

Ryan works at the American headquarters for FingerTec, a Malaysian company replacing PINs, usernames, and typed passwords with fingers and faces we don’t need to memorize.

“You can’t copy someone’s fingerprint unless you chop it off,” Ryan said, “which wouldn’t work because it has to be attached to a hand.”

For now, biometric security is not being forced on people. If you want to avoid it, you can.

But eventually, once it has been adopted on a widespread basis, banks and government agencies will start requiring it.

And it is easy to imagine a day when none of us will any longer be able to buy or sell anything without submitting to biometric identification. In fact, an “alternative payment method” involving hand scanning is already being tested in southern Sweden…

Hand scanning has become an alternative payment method for people in a city in southern Sweden, researchers at Lund University said Monday.

Vein scanning terminals have been installed in 15 shops and restaurants in Lund thanks to an engineering student who came up with the idea two years ago while waiting in line to pay.

Some 1,600 people have signed up already for the system, which its creator says is not only faster but also safer than traditional payment methods.

“Every individual’s vein pattern is completely unique, so there really is no way of committing fraud with this system,” researcher Fredrik Leifland said in a statement.

“You always need your hand scanned for a payment to go through.”

But before biometric identification is widely used for payment systems, we will probably see it implemented in a whole bunch of other ways first. For instance, biometric scanners are already being used in dining halls on college campuses all across America…

Hand geometry readers have been fairly common on campus for years but more recent deployments are leveraging fingerprint and even iris biometrics to link students with transactions. Physical access is the hallmark biometric application but the technology has been gaining popularity in food service and other sectors to expedite transactions.

The social stigma attached to biometrics is also being lifted, as students are becoming more comfortable with the technology, says Brian Adoff, executive vice president at NuVision. The inclusion of a fingerprint scanner on the latest iPhone is just one indication that the younger generation is comfortable with biometrics.

“Administrators have a greater fear of the technology than students,” says Bob Lemley, director of software development at the CBORD Group. “Students are growing up with the technology so they don’t think about it as much as the older generations.”

Georgia Southern University can attest to that fact. The school deployed iris biometrics at its dining hall and only two students out of 5,400 refused to enroll, says Richard Wynn, director of the university’s Eagle Card Program.

Young people tend to be less alarmed by this technology, and so that is where it is being pushed. If you can believe it, biometric scanners are even going to be used at Six Flags amusement park this summer…

A new scanning system at Six Flags sounds like it’s from the future, but the biometric scanner aims to make faster entrances for season pass holders.

When guests arrive at the front gate for the first time of the season, they will present their voucher and a scanner processes an image of their fingerprint, assigning a unique set of numbers that are used to validate the pass holder’s card each visit.

The first visit should take only about 20 seconds to set up the card, as opposed to the additional time of taking a photo and getting it printed on the card, according to spokeswoman Elizabeth Gotway.

This kind of reminds me of the new “MagicBands” at Disney parks that I have written about previously. You have probably seen the television commercials featuring them by now. Disney seems to think that parents and kids will have no problems wearing RFID tracking devices that allow them to buy stuff and monitor wherever they go. If you want to see what Disney has to say about these “MagicBands”, you can do so right here.

Our world is becoming stranger with each passing day.

Incredibly, biometric identification is even being used in Africa to keep track of who is being vaccinated…

In fact, some biometric solutions are helping solve vaccine delivery issues in Africa which has been hampered by ineffective tracking and reporting. Today, a biometric vaccination registry helps to ensure that millions of young children receive the vaccine that is needed to save their lives. And by knowing “who” has been vaccinated, these precious life-saving drugs are not wasted by over-vaccinating some and missing others entirely.

This technology is going to keep spreading, and it is going to become harder and harder to avoid it.

And it is easy to imagine what a tyrannical government could do with this kind of technology. If it wanted to, it could use it to literally track the movements and behavior of everyone.

We are already starting to see the establishment of massive biometric databases. One of these is the FBI’s facial recognition database that is a part of their “Next Generation Identification” program. It is being projected that the FBI will have compiled 52 million of our “face images” by the year 2015. Given enough time, eventually I am sure that they would have all of our faces in their computers.

And one day, this kind of technology will likely be so pervasive that you won’t be able to open a bank account, get a credit card or even buy anything without having either your hand or your face scanned first.

When that day arrives, what will you do?

That is something to think about.

About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog and End Of The American Dream. Michael’s shocking new book about the last days entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. It is shaking the world of Bible prophecy to the core, and it is being called one of the most controversial Christian books of 2016. If you would like to check it out, you can find it right here.*

Editor’s Note: This report was also on the MSM News, and you should have seen how these talking heads were hyping up this NWO technology. One female talking head even saying, “Wow, I wouldn’t even need to carry my purse!”

The palm might be the next promising payment method, according to various media reports. Quixter, a Sweden-based start-up, aims to deploy palm scanners at check-out to help speed payment.

The vein structure in the hand provides a unique pattern, similar to fingerprints, where the individual scanning his palm can be identified. A new point-of-payment system, Quixter allows for quick payment by asking individuals to punch in the last four digits of their phone number and scan their hand, Engadget reports.

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In order to pay using this method, consumers have to set up their account. “You have to swing one of the scanner-enabled stores, give it your social security number, bank info and phone number, then scan your palm three times. After that’s all done, you then activate your service on its website and fill out another form. Leifland says that each subsequent payment transaction only takes about five seconds to complete though, so you’ll have to do that cost-benefit analysis on your own,” wrote Engadget’s Chris Velazco.

Frederik Leifland developed the payment method while attending Lund University in Sweden as an engineering student, TechCrunch reports. His payment method is in use at 15 stores and cafes around the university and is used by roughly 1,600 students and faculty. Leifland said Quixter is also working with all major Swedish banks.

The palm print alone can complete the transaction. In a video demonstrating the new technology Leifland explained that the last four digits of the phone number are required mainly because consumers feel a need to do more than scan their hand. He explains that the user wants to look at the screen and interact.

While Quixter claims to be the first point-of-payment service of its kind using palm scanning techniques to verify payment, it is not the first use of palm scanning on the market. Last month Fujitsu said it would use palm-vein scanning on its smartphones and mobile devices as another layer of security. Other forms of biometrics developed for the market include fingerprint scanning and iris scanning.

One road block that has slowed adoption of electronic payments at the register, such as an electronic wallet, is that a consumer has to carry a payment device such as a smartphone or credit card with a chip.

“NFC for mobile payments has struggled with adoption. Not least because the user needs to have an NFC-enabled phone in order to be able to make these contactless payments – in addition to the retailer itself being set up to accept NFC payments,” wrote TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas.

Quixter’s palm scanner promises bold security with a bold claim. “Another mooted advantage is security — with Leifland making the bold claim that there is “no way” to commit fraud with this system. Short of, presumably, strong-arming someone else’s hand into buying your hot-cross bun for you,” wrote Lomas.

While the user barrier is lowered – users don’t have to buy a hand to activate this method of payment – there is a cost barrier for the retailer.

“As with NFC, palm-payment would require significant buy in from retailers to get any mass market momentum. Targeting small communities, such as university campuses, therefore makes sense as a rollout strategy. Albeit, it may be as far as such a system is able to roll in the short term,” wrote Lomas. “Getting buy-in from all the players in the payments value chain has caused many a payment ‘revolution’ to wither on the vine. Or, as may be the case, the vein.”

Facial recognition technology is being developed to track and target customers

Many retailers currently use the technology to identify shoplifters

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration is meeting in Washington D.C. next week to begin developing a ‘voluntary, enforceable code of conduct

Retail stores and other businesses may soon use facial recognition technology to identify and track big spenders.

Many retailers already use the technology to identify known shoplifters when they enter stores. Companies such as FaceFirst provide email or text notifications to alert business owners to known thieves.

Now, many companies are working on adding a new service in addition to security – boosting sales by tracking and targeting big-spending customers.

Instant recognition: Facial recognition technology makes an equation based on your facial features, like a fingerprint

UK-based NEC IT Solutions is already being used in several top stores around the U.S. to identify celebrities and valued customers.

When a valued customer enters the store, staff are sent vital information about them, including their name, clothing size, favorite brands and purchase history.

FaceFirst currently protects businesses from shoplifters.

‘Just load existing photos of your known shoplifters, members of organized retail crime syndicates, persons of interest and your best customers into FaceFirst,’ a marketing pitch on the company’s site explains.

‘Instantly, when a person in your FaceFirst database steps into one of your stores, you are sent an email, text or SMS alert that includes their picture and all biographical information of the known individual so you can take immediate and appropriate action.’

Joseph Rosenkrantz, chief executive of FaceFirst, toldThe New York Timesthat he envisions stores using the system to recognize shoppers and send personalized offers to their phones.

However, he says retailers should seek permission from customers before adding them to any kind of database.

Security: Facial recognition is employed in some retail stores to alert staff when known shoplifters enter the store

Technology experts and consumer advocates are meeting to discuss just that in the first of a series of meetings concerning the technology in Washington D.C. on February 6.

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration will to develop a ‘voluntary, enforceable code of conduct that specifies how the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights applies to facial recognition technology in the commercial context’ in the meetings.

‘Commercial facial recognition technology has the potential to provide important benefits and to support a new wave of technological innovation,’ John Verdi, the agency’s director of privacy initiatives told the New York Times, ‘but it also poses consumer privacy challenges.’

The elite want to tightly control almost everything that we do, say and think. When most people think of “tyranny”, they think of thugs with guns and little dictators running around barking orders at everyone. But that is not how the elite are accomplishing their goals these days.

They want us to actually believe that we have freedom and that we are choosing our own leaders, but in the background they are exerting “soft power” in a way that is absolutely ruthless. They fund the political campaigns of our politicians, they own nearly all of the large corporations and financial institutions, they exert very tight control over the media and their agenda is being promoted through the education systems of virtually every nation on the planet.

What the elite are doing is not illegal. In fact, they use the government and they use the law to accomplish their purposes. That is one reason why the elite love big government. For them, it is an instrument of control. The larger the government is, the easier it is to watch, track, monitor and control the rest of us.

As you read this, a “total domination control grid” is being constructed all around us that is far beyond anything that George Orwell ever dreamed of. This system is advancing on hundreds of different fronts, and it is getting tighter and more restrictive with each passing day. We may think that we still have a certain degree of liberty, but if you start doing things that the system does not like, the system has a way of getting you back in line very quickly. In the end, it is all about control.

There are many among the elite that actually believe that a tightly controlled society that is dominated by government institutions that they control is what is best for humanity. Many of them honestly believe that society would descend into chaos without a strong hand guiding it. Many of them truly are convinced that those that are “enlightened” are doing a noble thing by guiding humanity into the “bright future” that the elite are designing for them. But of course the freedoms and the liberties of the common people must be greatly limited in order to get us to that “bright future”.

We are like cattle that need to be penned in for our own good. This is how the elite actually think. I spent many years being educated by them and rubbing shoulders with them. They should not be trusted. Once our liberties and freedoms are gone, they will be nearly impossible to get back. And once the elite have total control, we will be faced with a tyranny unlike anything humanity has ever seen before.

The following are 29 signs that the elite are transforming society into a total domination control grid…

1. A new bill in the U.S. Senate would allow more than 20 different government agencies to read your email without a search warrant.

3. A highly sophisticated surveillance grid known as “Trapwire” is being installed in major cities and at “high value targets” all over the United States. Unfortunately, most Americans do not even realize that it exists.

4. Police departments all over America are beginning to deploy unmanned surveillance drones in the skies over their cities. But don’t think that a drone is not watching you just because you don’t live in a major city. The truth is that the federal government has been using unmanned surveillance drones to spy on farmers in Iowa and Nebraska. There could be a drone over your house right now and you might not ever know it.

5. Individual politicians know more about you than they ever have before. The amount of information that the Obama campaign has compiled on potential voters is absolutely frightening…

If you voted this election season, President Obama almost certainly has a file on you. His vast campaign database includes information on voters’ magazine subscriptions, car registrations, housing values and hunting licenses, along with scores estimating how likely they were to cast ballots for his reelection.

6. The UK is often five or ten years ahead of much of the rest of the world in implementing “Big Brother” police state measures. Over there it is now against the law to insult someone with your speech. If you say something that is “likely” to insult a Muslim or a homosexual you could end up being dragged in front of a judge. It is only a matter of time before we see these kinds of laws all over the planet.

7. Could you imagine the government telling you what the temperature inside your own home can be? A new law in France would do exactly that…

Heating a French home could soon require an income tax consultation or even a visit to the doctor under legislation to force conservation in the nation’s $46 billion household energy market.

A bill adopted by the lower house this month would set prices that homes pay based on wages, age and climate. Utilities Electricite de France and GDF Suez will use the data to reward consumers who cut power and natural gas usage and penalize those whom regulators decide are wasteful.

8. Control freak bureaucrats love to tell others how to run their lives. For example, one man down in Orlando, Florida was recently ordered to rip out the vegetable garden that he was growing in his front yard. Will we eventually get to the point where even the smallest details of our lives are micromanaged by the government?

9. Most Americans don’t realize this, but the DNA of almost every newborn baby in America is collected and stored by the government. What plans do they have for all of this DNA?

10. All over America, schools are beginning to require students to carry IDs with RFID microchips in them wherever they go. Fortunately, some students are fighting back…

The San Antonio sophomore who opposed microchipping student IDs that would track their every movement has inspired a groundswell of 300 students in her huge district who now refuse to wear the identification chips over religious, personal privacy, safety and civil liberties concerns. In addition, some 700 other people have signed petitions opposing the microchipping program.

11. There is more crossover between our education system and our law enforcement system than ever before. An increasing number of schools in the United States have police officers roaming their hallways, and today there are more than 70,000 children behind bars in America.

12. When you rely on FEMA to take care of you, it can literally feel like you are in prison. The following is a description of what life is like in one FEMA camp that was set up in New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy…

“Sitting there last night you could see your breath,” displaced resident Brian Sotelo told the Asbury Park Press. “At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletived).”

Sotelo said Blackhawk helicopters patrol the skies “all day and night” and a black car with tinted windows surveys the camp while the government moves heavy equipment past the tents at night. According to the story, reporters aren’t even allowed in the fenced complex, where lines of displaced residents form outside portable toilets. Security guards are posted at every door, and residents can’t even use the toilet or shower without first presenting I.D.

“They treat us like we’re prisoners,” Ashley Sabol told Reuters. “It’s bad to say, but we honestly feel like we’re in a concentration camp.”

Editor’s Note:Silicon Valley-based robotics company Knightscope’s CEO, William Santana Li, is a piece of filth that my vacuum cleaner would love nothing more than to suck into oblivion. As you read this article, see how this polished “robot himself” articulates and attempts to subjugate the reader into believing that these “thought-crime” robots are the best thing since sliced bread.

A scene in the 2004 film “I, Robot” involves an army of rogue NS-5 humanoids establishing a curfew and imprisoning the citizens of Chicago, circa 2035, inside their homes. That’s not how Knightscope envisions the coming day of deputized bots.

In its far less frightful future, friendly R2-D2 lookalikes patrol our streets, school hallways, and company campuses to keep us safe and put real-time data to good use. Instead of the Asimov-inspired NS-5, Knightscope, a Silicon Valley-based robotics company, is developing the K5.

Officially dubbed the K5 Autonomous Data Machine, the 300-pound, 5-foot-tall mobile robot will be equipped with nighttime video cameras, thermal imaging capabilities, and license plate recognition skills. It will be able to function autonomously for select operations, but more significantly, its software will providecrime prediction that’s reminiscent, the company claims, of the “precog” plot point of “Minority Report.”

CEO William Santana Li, a former Ford Motor executive, in an interview with CNET said:

“It can see, hear, feel, and smell and it will roam around autonomously 24/7,”

At the moment, the K5 is only a prototype, and Knightscope next year will launch a beta program with select partners.

But the company is shooting to have the K5 fully deployed by 2015 on a machine-as-a-service business model, meaning clients would pay by the hour for a monthly bill, based on 40-hour weeks, of $1,000. The hourly rate of $6.25 means the cost of the K5 would be competitive with the wages of many a low-wage human security guard.

Servicing and monitoring of the bots will depend on client needs, Li said, with either Knightscope or the customer employing someone to manage the bots full-time.

Crime prediction is one of the more eye-popping features of the K5, but the bot is also packed to the gills with cutting-edge surveillance technology. It has LIDAR mapping — a technique using lasers to analyze reflected light — to aid its autonomous movement. Li explained,

“It takes in data from a 3D real-time map that it creates and combines that with differential GPS and some proximity sensors and does a probabilistic analysis to figure out exactly where it should be going on its own,”

It also has behavioral analysis capabilities and enough camera, audio, and other sensor technology to pump out 90 terabytes of data a year per unit.

Down the line, the K5 will be equipped with facial recognition and even the ability to sniff out emanations from chemical and biological weapons, as well as airborne pathogens. It will be able to travel up to 18 mph, and later models will include the ability to maneuver curbs and other terrain.

The K5 will not be armed. Still, teens with late-night bot-tipping ambitions had best beware, lest their hijinks be recorded for posterity, and possible prosecution. Li said that messing with a Knightscope bot — which would be difficult given its weight — will have serious ramifications, as would tampering with any other form of security equipment on private property.

Still, the most sci-fi of all its features,the crime prediction algorithms, do sound too good to be true. And to be more precise, the K5 won’t be so much predicting crime as much as it will be analyzing multiple data points simultaneously and knowing when a situation may be on the precipice of becoming dangerous.

Li explained:

“Predicting crime is being deployed today, but it’s unfortunately using a lot of historical data. What doesn’t exist in that algorithm is real-time on-site data. So if you actually had data that was fresh, that was actually from the location you’re trying to analyze, it would make that algorithm much more robust.”

Li noted that the main goal of the crime prediction algorithms and autonomous function is to be able to push out an alert early with that kind of data, as well as aid the K5 in knowing when to charge itself and what time of day or night is optimal for uploading and downloading data in a specific environment.

“That extra 30 seconds or that extra 17 minutes … that time could actually save someone’s life,” Li added. The K5 will require a human being on the other end, both to manage it in the event it cannot rely on autonomous movement and to be able to interpret the alert data and loop in the necessary law enforcement agencies.

Security bots are one of the healthier subsets of the robotics industry. iRobot, maker of the popular Roomba vacuum bot, supplies both consumer and military-grade bots that perform a multitude of functions from cleaning floors, pools, and gutters to aiding bomb squads. And a number of smaller companies and research university projects have cooked up everything from consumer robots for personal property to helicopter drones for surveillance purposes.

Where the robotics industry has been lacking is in providing public spaces and large businesses with an all-purpose and highly capable bot that anyone in need of security and surveillance can employ, with military-grade guts that detect deviations from everyday activity.

Li said confidently,

“Our plan is to be able to cut crime by 50 percent in an area. When we do that, every mayor across this planet is going to be giving us a call,”

Knightscope derives some of its crime-fighting motivation from recent school shootings. “Must a hero be human?” the company asked when it announced in September that the K5 is being designed with the Sandy Hook Promise in mind. It hopes to have its bot one day patrolling schools because “you are never going to have an armed officer in every school,” Li told The New York Times recently.

Li cited other examples of situations where security professionals could reasonably expect to need assistance, such as large-scale concert venues and sporting events. The goal is twofold: to offer a security robot that is vastly more capable than currentoptions, but also to reassure the public that the the presence of K5 units is no threat to privacy.

“The likelihood a criminal is going to walk into an area with a few hundred droids, and the community is engaged using this tool and that transparency is there and there’s no privacy concerns — a criminal is going to have second thoughts,” Li said.

While no schools have yet signed up to put K5 machines outside classrooms, Knightscope has partnered with FIFA to bring its bot to the World Cup next year summer in Brazil. It’s also working, Li noted, with “some of the largest malls,” some private security companies, and a well-known insurance firm.

As for whether Knightscope is working with any defense contractors or the US military, Li was tight-lipped, adding that the company had been approached but could not talk specifics.

A better security guard — at the expense of human jobs

While keeping schools safe is an undeniably noble pursuit, Knightscope, with its competitive hourly pricing model, is also targeting the security industry from the bottom up, taking aim at the particularly vulnerable group of 1.3 million private security guards nationwide who are typically non-unionized workers and who mostly earn a minimum wage that amounts to around $23,000 annually.

Even then, that makes the K5 — at $6.25 an hour and $36,000 a year, with each unit capable of performing up to three eight-hour shifts a day — a job-killing prospect. “It is triple-shift-capable,” Li said when discussing the K5′s endurance, noting that the machine can run up to 24 hours on a single charge.

Li and co-founder Stacey Stephens, a former Texas police officer, chose Sunnyvale, Calif., for Knightscope’s headquarters, as a way to appeal to the needs of Apple, Facebook, and the many other Silicon Valley institutions with sprawling campuses and elaborate security needs.

And Knightscope relies on the commonplace line of argument touting the benefits of automation. “That gives a security company a tool that’s much more cost-effective and gives security guards and law enforcement a much more meaningful job,” Li said. “Those jobs are miserable for a lot of folks.”

Google, which maintains a sprawling facility in nearby Mountain View, is currently tangled up in a long-running labor dispute between its non-unionized security guards and the contractor it hires, Security Industry Specialists.

Whether the company would do away with security workers aiming to unionize and replace them with robots like the K5 is a debate that is now more timely than ever.

Kevin O’Donnell, a spokesman for the Service Employees International Union’s Stand for Security campaign that handles disputes of this nature, doesn’t place any blame on Knightscope or the K5 for potential displacement of security guard workers down the line due to automation. Rather, he puts the responsibility on tech companies.

“I would say that companies like Apple and Google need to think about the impact of these decisions on the community in Silicon Valley,” O’Donnell said. “What is going to be the economic impact on the community? Already, you see huge rates of homelessness in Silicon Valley, huge rates of poverty, and huge rates of food stamp participation.”

Knightscope has not announced any official partnerships with Silicon Valley tech companies for its 2014 beta, but did disclose that will be setting up K5 units in a “particularly large Silicon Valley city.”

Still, Li is adamant about Knightscope’s vision of bringing to reality what many feel to be the inevitability of automation closer, and sounds a theme often heard from proponents of robots. He said:

“Let the human do the strategic work, and the machines do the monotonous and sometimes dangerous work,”

O’Donnell pointed out, meanwhile, that even if automation opens up new opportunities, that doesn’t automatically equate to better employment of security guards. “If new employment is generated, what kinds of jobs are these going to be? Are they going to be good jobs, and will they sustain communities?” he asked.

“And of course,” he added, “who will have access to those jobs?”

Eyes and ears on every street corner

Even if you buy into the proposed benefits of automation and the need for more high-tech security in schools and businesses, privacy issues boil to the surface most notably when it comes to the K5′s role in public spaces.

But Li likens the potential privacy infringements of the K5′s video and audio recording capabilities — not to mention its facial and license plate recognition — to necessary evils that could become inconsequential when weighed against the benefits of robotic security.

“If you’re in the public, the assumption of your privacy is a little bit different than in your home,” Li said.

When asked about the possibility of making people uncomfortable with the 360-degree image-capturing capabilities of the K5, Li defended the approach of pushing the boundaries of privacy in the name of innovation. He stated:

“Fear doesn’t effect or make a positive change. Technology can make a huge change in change in saving people’s lives. Our intentions are honorable here,”

The company is aiming to make the K5′s crime data publicly available on a Web-based platform. It hopes that that measure will reassure communities that the K5 can be a positive force for public safety.

“There’s been some concerns about facial recognition,” Li acknowledged. “But what if I told you that you could actually match the kid to the right license plate to the right car so the right kid can be going into the right vehicle?”he posited.

With the K5′s license plate and facial recognition technology — alongside its LIDAR 3D mapping and predictive software that keeps track of daily patterns — that may not be a fantasy.

“What puts people on edge is not necessarily privacy. What puts people on edge is being shot at,” Li said. “I think we have an opportunity to have those instances stop, or at least significantly decline them by having these types of machines in the community.”

Additional reporting by Kara Tsuboi.

About the author:Nick Stattis a staff writer for CNET. He previously wrote for ReadWrite and was a news associate at the social magazine app Flipboard. He spends a questionable amount of his free time contemplating his relationship with video games while continuously exploring the convergence of tech, science and pop culture.

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